- RapidSX™ commercialization milestones
- Louisiana SMC engineering and deployment updates
- U.S. and Canadian government funding developments
- Strategic partner, feedstock, offtake, logistics, and magnet supply chain updates
- Ucore news releases, investor materials, filings, and corporate updates
- Monthly Rare Earth REECAP
That step is separation. Outside China, very little of it happens at commercial scale. It is the step Ucore is building.
Rare earths come out of the ground mixed together. Magnet manufacturers buy single, high-purity oxides. Converting one into the other is chemistry rather than mining, and it is the point where the Western supply chain thins out.
RapidSX™ applies established solvent extraction chemistry through a different equipment design, developed for faster processing and a smaller physical footprint.
Ucore’s first planned commercial RapidSX™ separation facility is the Strategic Metals Complex in Alexandria, Louisiana.
Dysprosium oxide sample material produced for Japanese, South Korean and US customer qualification.
Produced, with qualification samples shipped to major rare earth magnet manufacturers.
Additional funding from the U.S. Department of War to advance samarium and gadolinium refining.
Most of the sector is working to prove a deposit. Ucore is not.
- Proving a resource
- Permitting and financing a mine
- Eventually producing a mixed concentrate
- Taking mixed concentrate and separating it into single, high-purity oxides
- Qualifying that output with magnet manufacturers
- Delivering a commercial separation facility in Louisiana
Greenland, Canada, Australia, the United States. Allied rare earth deposits are not the scarce part of this supply chain.
Produces mixed concentrate. Several allied projects are advancing.
Allied capacity here is thin. This is what Ucore is building.
Buys single, high-purity oxides. It cannot use mixed concentrate.
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U.S. government OTA totaling US$27M, including US$18.4M for commercial-scale infrastructure in Louisiana.
Up to C$36.3M conditional Canadian support for samarium and gadolinium rare earth processing in Kingston, Ontario.
Rare earth processing is now a national priority. Ucore is aligned with that mission.
Governments in the United States and Canada are moving quickly to strengthen critical minerals supply chains, reduce dependence on concentrated foreign processing capacity, and support domestic rare earth separation.
Ucore’s strategy is directly aligned with this policy shift. The company has announced U.S. government funding, conditional Canadian government support, DPAS-rated equipment priority, and recognition within broader North American and allied critical minerals initiatives.
US$27M
Ucore has secured US$27 million in total grant funding under its agreement with the U.S. Army Contracting Command-Orlando, including an additional US$4.6 million announced in September 2026 to advance samarium and gadolinium refining.
The expanded program supports samarium and gadolinium process development in Kingston, Ontario, and the deployment of Enhanced Machine A at the planned Louisiana Strategic Metals Complex in Alexandria. This work advances Ucore’s RapidSX™ technology toward commercial rare earth separation for U.S. defense and industrial supply chains.
C$36.3M
Ucore has announced conditional approval for up to C$36.3 million from the Government of Canada, through Natural Resources Canada and FedDev Ontario, to support Canadian rare earth processing in Kingston, Ontario.
The program is focused on scaling up a commercial processing facility dedicated to the refining of samarium and gadolinium, two rare earth elements important to advanced magnet and defense-related supply chains.
DPAS DO-B8
Ucore has announced that work connected to the Louisiana SMC has received DPAS-rated status. Under the Defense Priorities and Allocations System, rated orders are given preferential treatment to support national defense and emergency preparedness requirements.
Ucore also announced the arrival of a DPAS-rated long-lead equipment component at the Louisiana SMC, including a 4,000-gallon glass-lined reactor procured under the company’s modified U.S. government funding agreement.